…There and Everywhere

• Updates to that post: Belmont University will join Hope in offering benefits to same-sex spouses, but CCCU members Westmont, Wheaton, Messiah, and Azusa Pacific said they wouldn’t revise their policies. And Baylor’s change of policy language might not indicate that big a shift after all…

One of the many Hispanic Pentecostal churches in New York City – Creative Commons (Jim Henderson)

• Does their history with divorce suggest how evangelicals might change their mind about same-sex marriage?

• Kyle Roberts argued that a commitment to biblical authority need not keep evangelicals and post-evangelicals from taking an inclusive LGBT position — in fact, it might lead them to that belief.

• The New York Times is my favorite newspaper, but their coverage of religion can be a bit awkward. Alternative headline for this article: “Hey guys, there are evangelicals in NYC! Lots of ’em!”

• The Archbishop of Canterbury explained why he’s a Christian: “…because it makes sense to me, because Jesus rose from the dead, he conquered death and sin and suffering. I’m a Christian because in Jesus I see the God who didn’t say, ‘this is how you lot have got to behave and I’m going to watch you and judge you,’ but came alongside us and lived in the middle of the absolute foulest mess and himself died unjustly young in great agony and bore all that was wrong in this world on his shoulders.

“I’m a Christian because in my own experience I’ve run away and he’s met me and yet not been angry with me; when I’ve failed he’s picked me up and healed and strengthened me.”

• If you read my attempt to summarize the Benedict Option and were still confused about what it does and doesn’t mean in practice… Rod Dreher attempted to clarify things.

• Even if Greece remains in the European Union… Historically, it’s never been quite clear if it’s part of Europe.

• Great line from Eric Christiansen’s review of a new attempt to rehabilitate the image of the Middle Ages against the sneers of moderns: “Even those who doubt that hot air is the best way of defeating hot air will be impressed by the main body of the work, which covers a thousand years of mostly Western and Central European history with magnificent confidence.”

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